Bill Text: IL HB1060 | 2009-2010 | 96th General Assembly | Engrossed

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Bill Title: Amends the Lobbyist Registration Act. Applies the Act to the lobbying of members of State boards and commissions.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2009-08-16 - Rule 19(b) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB1060 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2009-HB1060-Engrossed.html

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AN ACT concerning State government.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Lobbyist Registration Act is amended by
changing Section 2 as follows:
(25 ILCS 170/2) (from Ch. 63, par. 172)
Sec. 2. Definitions. As used in this Act, unless the
context otherwise requires:
(a) "Person" means any individual, firm, partnership,
committee, association, corporation, or any other organization
or group of persons.
(b) "Expenditure" means a payment, distribution, loan,
advance, deposit, or gift of money or anything of value, and
includes a contract, promise, or agreement, whether or not
legally enforceable, to make an expenditure, for the ultimate
purpose of influencing executive, legislative, or
administrative action, other than compensation as defined in
subsection (d).
(c) "Official" means:
(1) the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of
State, Attorney General, State Treasurer, and State
Comptroller;
(2) Chiefs of Staff for officials described in item

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(1);
(3) Cabinet members of any elected constitutional
officer, including Directors, Assistant Directors and
Chief Legal Counsel or General Counsel;
(3.5) Members of boards and commissions created by or
pursuant to the Illinois Constitution, State statute, or
executive order of the Governor; and
(4) Members of the General Assembly.
(d) "Compensation" means any money, thing of value or
financial benefits received or to be received in return for
services rendered or to be rendered, for lobbying as defined in
subsection (e).
Monies paid to members of the General Assembly by the State
as remuneration for performance of their Constitutional and
statutory duties as members of the General Assembly shall not
constitute compensation as defined by this Act.
(e) "Lobbying" means any communication with an official of
the executive or legislative branch of State government as
defined in subsection (c) for the ultimate purpose of
influencing executive, legislative, or administrative action.
(f) "Influencing" means any communication, action,
reportable expenditure as prescribed in Section 6 or other
means used to promote, support, affect, modify, oppose or delay
any executive, legislative or administrative action or to
promote goodwill with officials as defined in subsection (c).
(g) "Executive action" means the proposal, drafting,

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development, consideration, amendment, adoption, approval,
promulgation, issuance, modification, rejection or
postponement by a State entity of a rule, regulation, order,
decision, determination, contractual arrangement, purchasing
agreement or other quasi-legislative or quasi-judicial action
or proceeding.
(h) "Legislative action" means the development, drafting,
introduction, consideration, modification, adoption,
rejection, review, enactment, or passage or defeat of any bill,
amendment, resolution, report, nomination, administrative rule
or other matter by either house of the General Assembly or a
committee thereof, or by a legislator. Legislative action also
means the action of the Governor in approving or vetoing any
bill or portion thereof, and the action of the Governor or any
agency in the development of a proposal for introduction in the
legislature.
(i) "Administrative action" means the execution or
rejection of any rule, regulation, legislative rule, standard,
fee, rate, contractual arrangement, purchasing agreement or
other delegated legislative or quasi-legislative action to be
taken or withheld by any executive agency, department, board or
commission of the State.
(j) "Lobbyist" means any person who undertakes to lobby
State government as provided in subsection (e).
(Source: P.A. 88-187.)